The Iranian Mullahcracy’s Dystopian Nature and America’s Resolve

Across the globe, very few scholars and politicians comprehend the true geostrategic nature of the Islamic Republic of Iran with its fatal curse of illegitimacy called the “Guardianship of the Jurist.”  The guiding principles of this doctrine are destructive fundamentalism, brutal martyrdom, the total rejection of individual freedom, and the terroristic mockery of justice.  These principles, in turn, have created a perfect religious tyranny where the immorality of hatred and the belief of the God-like Supreme Leader in his righteous infallibility render this unique Shi’a version of Islam to be in permanent war of annihilation with itself and the rest of the world.  Therefore, from its ideological inception by Ruhollah Mostafavi Musavi Khemenei in the second half of the 20th century, his politicization of a religious culture has known no peace, no tolerance, and no empathy for the individual, or the world at large.  

For these reasons, the answer to the Iranian version of Islam must also be a strategic one.  Liberation of the Iranian people, peace as well as stability in the Middle East and beyond, can only be restored by the unyielding political unity of the West.  That there is no other solution must be understood without any reservation. The alternative is more untold suffering to the overwhelming majority of Muslims and permanent misery for the rest of the world.  Consequently, the strategy of the United States of America and its allies is paramount – to fight for global welfare and not merely manage an unmanageable situation within the Muslim world. 

First, the Iranian Mullahcracy has turned for the overwhelming majority of their country into a morbid cemetery.  Second, it has cut off almost all Iranians from global civilization.  Third, it has arrested progress in every field of human activity – with the exception of the pursuit of the nuclear bomb.  Fourth, it has cemented the belief in individual violence and global terror as the sole instrument of spreading its version of Islam.  Fifth, it has prevented serious exploration and reform in Islam.  Sixth, it has made nearly impossible any meaningful dialogue between Muslims and non-Muslims across the globe.  Seventh, the primitive oversimplification of Islam has set the Iranian Mullahcracy in general against the West.  Eighth, extreme indoctrination in schools and mosques throughout Iran has perpetuated an irrational myth of the Medina-utopia as the only solution to Islam’s global victory.  Ninth, the value of the individual and its political consequences have not been taken seriously at all within the Mullahcratic Iran.  Tenth, the tyranny based on the “Guardianship of the Jurist” have totally ignored the roots of religious and secular emptiness and desperation of the Iranian people.  Eleventh, the tyrannical unity of religion and politics has destroyed trust in Islam itself.  Twelfth, this doctrine prevented Iranians from prioritizing the essential doctrines of their faith.

Consequently, for almost all non-Muslims, Islam appears to be irredeemably authoritarian, cruelly misogynistic, and hopelessly irrational.  Ultimately, the Iranian Mullahcracy, or the Twelver Shi’a branch, lacks a humanistic vision of the individual and views the non-Muslim majority of mankind as sub-humans, because they intentionally, and even maliciously reject the only true religion, which is the “Guardianship of the Jurist.”  

While faux-democratic institutions exist, the concept of an elected government is completely missing from the Iranian Mullahcracy’s constitution.  Hukm, absolute divine power, belongs exclusively to God’s earthly representative the Supreme Leader.  He can override elected institutions and totally disregard political sovereignty.  For these reasons, the Islamic Republic of Iran’s domestic tyranny is not merely political, but suffocatingly existential too.  The result is that, while society appears normal on the surface, coercion remains structurally omnipresent.  Out of these tyrannical concepts have flown another capricious idea.  There is no equality in the Mullahcracy.  The God-anointed have the right to govern.  The subjects have the obligation to obey unconditionally.  The government is the preserve of the powerful, the capricious, the brutal, and even the barbaric.  Therefore, the Mullahcracy is totally incompatible with liberty.

Since political authority is not legitimized by real elections, the Mullahcracy can only maintain power by coercive means.  This, in turn, again creates a highly unstable situation.  When political power is strong, the people are weak.  When political power weakens, the people turn with extreme brutality against their tormentors.  Absolute power begets absolute lawlessness, and the combination of the two leads to permanent instability, chaos, and mutually destructive terror.

Presently, the weakening of the Iranian Mullahcracy is a reality.  Moreover, the original revolutionary fervor of 1979, has almost completely disappeared.  The protest following the death of Mahsa Amini in 2022 became a definitive symbol of this situation.  Finally, economic decline, combined with ubiquitous sanctions, internal power fragmentation, social and cultural tensions, demographic pressure, and regional overextension, all foreshadow the certainty of a regional as well as global explosion in the near future.  

The efforts to liberate Iran from the tyranny of the Mullahcracy must be finished, if needed by force.  Otherwise, the Islamic Republic of Iran will remain a steadily seething volcano ready to erupt over the region and beyond at any moment.